Defendant, German entrepreneur and gastronome Christina Block (R) stands next to her lawyer Ingo Bott (C), as her partner, co-defendant Gerhard Delling (back L), former presenter and sports journalist, looks on prior to the continuation of the trial over alleged child abduction at the Criminal Court building in Hamburg, northern Germany, on October 13, 2026. On October 12, 2026, the German weekly "Die Zeit" was forced to hand over recordings of interviews to the police in connection with an investigation into the Block case, in which a former head of German intelligence is said to be implicated. The police visited the newspapers' offices in Hamburg and "threatened to search the newsroom", before seizing recordings of interviews relating to a journalistic investigation into the businesswoman Christina Block, according to an article in "Die Zeit". The public prosecutor's office accuses Block, heiress of a steakhouse chain, of ordering the abduction of her daughter, born in 2010, and her son, born in 2013. According to the indictment, the background to this is an escalating custody dispute over many years between Block and her former husband, who have four children together. (Photo by Christian Charisius / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)